Theresa May Apologizes for Delays in Britain’s Health System<br />" she said in a television interview after being asked if she would be happy if a relative were put through the delays<br />that patients were facing. that I know it’s difficult, I know it’s frustrating, I know it’s disappointing for people, and I apologize,<br />4, 2018<br />LONDON — A day after denying that the National Health Service was facing a crisis, Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain apologized<br />on Thursday for delays throughout the health care agency as it scrambled to cope with a particularly difficult winter season.<br />And all that comes against a backdrop of years of austerity-driven budget restraints, as well as staffing shortages<br />that many health experts attribute to the anti-immigrant atmosphere fostered by Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, which is driving foreign health care workers back to their home countries.<br />But the $2.2 billion increase she referred to fell far short of the $5.4 billion<br />that Simon Stevens, the chief executive of the service, requested last year.<br />Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the opposition Labour Party, said Mrs. May’s apology<br />was not good enough and blamed her Conservative Party for the crisis.<br />Hospital corridors are brimming with patients waiting for wards to be freed up,<br />and nonurgent cases are being referred to pharmacies or general practitioners.
